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in 1998, bob returned to san francisco as united states attorney. please join me in welcoming my good friend and one of america's most distinguished public servants, robert muller. [applause] >> let me start off by thanking mason for that kind introduction. i will say -- you often wonder when a former professor is going to introduce you. you do not know what is going to come out. but, thank you. you were there to kick start my career when it needed kick starting. let me thank the commonwealth club for having me back. it is great to be back in san francisco but also to be back with you this afternoon. two months ago, we marked the 10th anniversary of the september 11 attacks. the horrific events of that day were the prelude to a decade of political, economic, and cultural transformation, and globalization and technology have accelerated these changes. consider now how different our world was in the summer of 2001. leaders of egypt, iraq, and libya were entrenched in power. barack obama was an illinois state senator, and arnold schwarzenegger was a mo
in 1998, bob returned to san francisco as united states attorney. please join me in welcoming my good friend and one of america's most distinguished public servants, robert muller. [applause] >> let me start off by thanking mason for that kind introduction. i will say -- you often wonder when a former professor is going to introduce you. you do not know what is going to come out. but, thank you. you were there to kick start my career when it needed kick starting. let me thank the...
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everybody sitting at the table, i have a number of united states attorneys. almost all of them have been in the u.s. attorney's office before. some of them are still in private practice. good luck to them. but a number of us have bounced back and forth. i think a number of us would say the most rewarding time we have had has been the time when we were in public service. you are given the opportunity to contribute. it really is a gift. the biggest gift i have had the opportunity to do this kind of work. and if the challenge of attracting and retaining great people is one that cuts across administration's where you serve, another is responding to concerns about the patriot acts. i wanted to give you a chance about what the fbi has learned in your view about the patriot act since it passed. >> the greatest benefit of the patriot act was a breakdown of the statutory walls between the fbi and cia. those walls were erected some time ago where what you did internationally had very little bearing on what was done domestically and vice versa. you cannot get a picture
everybody sitting at the table, i have a number of united states attorneys. almost all of them have been in the u.s. attorney's office before. some of them are still in private practice. good luck to them. but a number of us have bounced back and forth. i think a number of us would say the most rewarding time we have had has been the time when we were in public service. you are given the opportunity to contribute. it really is a gift. the biggest gift i have had the opportunity to do this kind...
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we have the responsibility of doing the intelligence gathering in the united states, understanding is american citizens we are attempting to protect. we have to do it under the constitution and applicable statutes. the sharing of that information and working together has gone light years since september 11. having been through a number of battles over the years, the focus on the mission trump's just about everything else. what is difficult is coming up with an organizational structure to address cyber in all of its manifestations. fraud schemes are now on the internet. the dissemination of child pornography and the like have integrated to the internet and the field of cyber. cyber intrusion, the exploitation of information is in the cyber arena. how we address that is going to be a huge challenge in the years to come. " we are about to run out of time. i am going to ask you three brief questions. you can address any piece of this that you like. you have such a serious job. what do you do for fun or to relax? that seems to make an assumption about time to relax. have you seen the movie
we have the responsibility of doing the intelligence gathering in the united states, understanding is american citizens we are attempting to protect. we have to do it under the constitution and applicable statutes. the sharing of that information and working together has gone light years since september 11. having been through a number of battles over the years, the focus on the mission trump's just about everything else. what is difficult is coming up with an organizational structure to...
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they have a one bedroom unit so the crib is in their closet and they can't buy because she brought it as a tic where co-owners buy in together and convert to condos. after eight years they're still waiting to convert. >> the probability goes lower and lower each time because there's more applicants competing for the same spots. >> san francisco allowing 200 every year and the number of tics have grown to 2,000. >> it used to take two or three years, but it's looking like 20 years. >> they packed city hall that allows tic owners a chance at buying con dope status. the line to speak went out the door and around the hallway. opponents held a rally outside and said the law will bad and encourage investers to snatch up the property. >> you have people that want to take a profit and take the units off the market and turn them into ten an sees in common and sell them as condos. >> my fear is by opening the blood gate and these condo converting has speculateers -- >> one supervisor says he wants to continue this and it will have to go to the board. janet catina, channel 2+x9wy news. >>> inves
they have a one bedroom unit so the crib is in their closet and they can't buy because she brought it as a tic where co-owners buy in together and convert to condos. after eight years they're still waiting to convert. >> the probability goes lower and lower each time because there's more applicants competing for the same spots. >> san francisco allowing 200 every year and the number of tics have grown to 2,000. >> it used to take two or three years, but it's looking like 20...
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. >> opponents say changing the law will encourage people to buy housing units and convert them to condos and that type of real estate would hurt the city and its neighborhoods. >>> we have an update on those hand painted nomes. they told the chronicle that the nomes can stay. they say the paintings compromised the equipment but the decision is that they have embraced the little guys and the nomes are meant to be a gift to the community. i heard from a ton of people about the little nomes. >> they do make you smile. >> yes, they do. >>> coming up, could there be new hope for the sacramento kings to stay in sacramento and they are getting serious about trying to buy the team. >>> plus, what the teenage driver said happened right before the car went into the water, stay tuned for more. look at you guys with your fancy-schmancy u-verse high speed internet. you know, in my day you couldn't just start streaming six ways to sunday. you'd get knocked off. and sometimes, it took a minute to download a song. that's sixty seconds, for crying out loud. we know how long a minute is! sitting, waiting
. >> opponents say changing the law will encourage people to buy housing units and convert them to condos and that type of real estate would hurt the city and its neighborhoods. >>> we have an update on those hand painted nomes. they told the chronicle that the nomes can stay. they say the paintings compromised the equipment but the decision is that they have embraced the little guys and the nomes are meant to be a gift to the community. i heard from a ton of people about the...
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it is the fact that hillary was married to a president of the united states through an eight-year tenure, and she knows better than anyone else that barack obama will talk to, what it's like to be the president of the most important country in the world. that seems to me to be where the real bond probably came from. >> between the two of them, they lived 12 years in that house. and hillary, i think, certainly knows her way around. and you can't -- i wanted to ask another question about bill. and i think that it was pretty clear that bill and the president have not -- that he was more resistant to the marriage, the political marriage than she was. but also, i think one of the reasons that they did this was, i think the president wanted to close the relationship circle, you know, end the circle. to close the circle with the clintons. in the sense that they had been incredibly helpful to him. particularly bill. in campaigning for him back in 2008 after hillary lost the nomination, and particularly this year when the president was involved in a really difficult race. and people wondered how
it is the fact that hillary was married to a president of the united states through an eight-year tenure, and she knows better than anyone else that barack obama will talk to, what it's like to be the president of the most important country in the world. that seems to me to be where the real bond probably came from. >> between the two of them, they lived 12 years in that house. and hillary, i think, certainly knows her way around. and you can't -- i wanted to ask another question about...
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but he has a bad hobt of forgetting there is a united states september. the constitution says there are 1100 positions, like secretary of state and member of the national labor relations board, that require teas advise and consent of the senate. if you send someone up here that senators don't want to confirm, then they can't be confirmed will. i was that way. president bush the first sent my name up here as education secretary 20 years ago and democratic senators hel me up for 3 months, that's what the senate does. >> a single republican could have held up the appointment. it is not that -- it's a -- that the senate majority's democrats. so one single republican -- >> no, not really. if -- 40 republicans, or 40 senators can block an appointment. it takes 40. >> okay. so -- wouldn't you expect that his appointment to the nlrb nlight of the fact there are so many democrats in the senate, that's a majority, that they would have gotten confirmed anyway. >> well, maybe. but if the appointees had said, we think we can get rid of the secret ballot in unielection
but he has a bad hobt of forgetting there is a united states september. the constitution says there are 1100 positions, like secretary of state and member of the national labor relations board, that require teas advise and consent of the senate. if you send someone up here that senators don't want to confirm, then they can't be confirmed will. i was that way. president bush the first sent my name up here as education secretary 20 years ago and democratic senators hel me up for 3 months, that's...
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one of the united states top fire safety groups said the fire should be a wake up call for city here. new safety recommendations were released in 2003 after the fire at a nightclub in rhode island that killed 100 people. standards call for sprinklers, crowd managers and more safety inspections in night clubs. some cities haven't implemented the new standards and others lack man power to enforce the rules. >> a lot of people are under huge, huge pressure, economically and they are laying people off, in a lot of cases it is the people doing the inspection part of it. >> there are 7600 fires at establishments each year on average in the united states. whenever you are in a crowded place make sure to make a mental note of exits. >> our chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking a warm up but it comes as concern because of something we are not getting. >> rain. i don't worry. couple rain would be -- couple days of rain would be nice. we be drier weather, it started last week. running into this week as well and beyond that. models are dry. that leaves us with cool over night lows and warme
one of the united states top fire safety groups said the fire should be a wake up call for city here. new safety recommendations were released in 2003 after the fire at a nightclub in rhode island that killed 100 people. standards call for sprinklers, crowd managers and more safety inspections in night clubs. some cities haven't implemented the new standards and others lack man power to enforce the rules. >> a lot of people are under huge, huge pressure, economically and they are laying...
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ignore the ones that get in the way, you know, like the whole rule requiring that the president of the united states has to be born in america. >> unfortunately, the constitution also contains some provisions that are not so inspiring. suppose that barack obama really wasn't a natural born citizen, so what? >> that's exactly how liberals view the constitution in this day and age, when it stands in the way of implementation of their left wing agenda, just ignore it. ironically the constitution gives cbs news ap the people like the good professor, the right to spew this nonsense in the first place, instead of trashing the document maybe the network, maybe the good professor should simply say, thank you. and that's all the time we have left this evening. as always thank you for being with us. let not your heart be troubled. greta is next on the record. take it away. >> greta: what a battle, rush limbaugh versus president obama. the two are really slugging it out again, but this time it's personal. >> the president is targeting me now and fox news, the only remaining media opposition, apparently.
ignore the ones that get in the way, you know, like the whole rule requiring that the president of the united states has to be born in america. >> unfortunately, the constitution also contains some provisions that are not so inspiring. suppose that barack obama really wasn't a natural born citizen, so what? >> that's exactly how liberals view the constitution in this day and age, when it stands in the way of implementation of their left wing agenda, just ignore it. ironically the...
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>> well, i don't know what his thinking was, but he has a bad habit of forgets there's a united states senate. the constitution says there are 1100 positions like secretary of state and member of the national labor relations board that require advise and consent of the senate. if you sent someone up here that the senators don't want to confirm, they can't be confirmed. i was that way, president bush the first sent my name up education senator 20 years ago and some democratic senators held me up three months and that's what the senate does. >> greta: a single republican could have held up the appointment. it's not that the senate is-- the senate majority is democrats, so, one single republican could have held up the-- >> no, not really. it's 40 republicans or if 40 senators can block an appointment. it takes 40. >> greta: okay, so he would have gotten-- wouldn't you expect his appointments to the nlrb in light of the fact there are so many democrats in the senate, that is the majority, that they would have gotten confirmed anyway? >> neighbor, but in these appointees said we think we ca
>> well, i don't know what his thinking was, but he has a bad habit of forgets there's a united states senate. the constitution says there are 1100 positions like secretary of state and member of the national labor relations board that require advise and consent of the senate. if you sent someone up here that the senators don't want to confirm, they can't be confirmed. i was that way, president bush the first sent my name up education senator 20 years ago and some democratic senators held...
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these are really three very fine additions to the united states senate. and in the case of senator klobuchar and senator coons, they're two respected members on the senate judiciary committee and senator rubio, who in my view is one of the most knowledgeable senators we have on immigration policy and as you can see, a terrific leader in so many other way, we send a strong message that both sides of the aisle can come together to craft bipartisan legislation to address one of our country's most urgent economic needs. yesterday eight of our colleagues unveiled a framework to overhaul our nation's immigration system. i'm proud of them. i commend them for their willingness to work in a bipartisan way to reform our immigration laws. it's very much needed and one of the leaders is our own senator rubio, as well as senator schumer and senator mccain, and others as well, but i hate to not mention -- but i think you get the point. similarly, the work that senators klobuchar, rubio, coons, and i have done in crafting the i-squared act of 2013 was no easy task and r
these are really three very fine additions to the united states senate. and in the case of senator klobuchar and senator coons, they're two respected members on the senate judiciary committee and senator rubio, who in my view is one of the most knowledgeable senators we have on immigration policy and as you can see, a terrific leader in so many other way, we send a strong message that both sides of the aisle can come together to craft bipartisan legislation to address one of our country's most...
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the united nations to be forced to scale back food aid due to lack of international funding. on monday, the director of the in humanitarian operation said relief workers have already cut the nutritional count the food rations and half in the past two months. speaking after a trip to syria, he warned the country is seeing widespread devastation. but it is really shocking the scale of the devastation and the cost and amount of time it will take to recover already, not to speak of course about the fact this is going on in an unrelenting way. the days of living conditions for people not in syria across the board are just quite appalling. what strikes you most is when you go to the hospitals and you see how sick people are having to cope in medical facilities that are just so seriously under resort. >> an internal document reveals the obama administration is shuttering the office of the special envoy in charge of closing guantanamo. the special envoy is being reassigned and will not be replaced according to a report in the new york times. president obama about four years ago to cl
the united nations to be forced to scale back food aid due to lack of international funding. on monday, the director of the in humanitarian operation said relief workers have already cut the nutritional count the food rations and half in the past two months. speaking after a trip to syria, he warned the country is seeing widespread devastation. but it is really shocking the scale of the devastation and the cost and amount of time it will take to recover already, not to speak of course about the...
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what about today with the fiscal environment the united states is facing? what we have better discussions during these debates that centered more on the economy? >> i think in the end, this one did come down to the economy. the president may be basing his second term on social issues. if you take his inauguration speech as a guidepost to where he wants to go from here. but i did not hear him to talk a lot during the campaign. the economy began to get better. i did not see him spending a lot of time talking about gay rights during the election. i did not hear him talk very much about gun control. i think it was mentioned once in one of the debates. i think they thought they had to get -- what they concentrated on, in some ways, this was not so much an election about issues as it was about identifying their voters and getting their voters to the polls and recognizing the demographics in this country were changing dramatically. they figured that out and how to get people to the polls and republicans did not do as well. i think the core of the president's messa
what about today with the fiscal environment the united states is facing? what we have better discussions during these debates that centered more on the economy? >> i think in the end, this one did come down to the economy. the president may be basing his second term on social issues. if you take his inauguration speech as a guidepost to where he wants to go from here. but i did not hear him to talk a lot during the campaign. the economy began to get better. i did not see him spending a...
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when you have the president of the united states just last week talking about the civil rights movement from african-americans to women to gays and lesbians, it really kind of squarely puts the boy scouts in the past and i don't think that's a place they can afford to be anymore. >> so is lifting the ban enough? there's some thought the boy scouts will leave it up to individual troops to decide. >> of course. i think this is a great first step and a conversation that they're having but when they expelled me in 1990 from scouting and when they upheld the right of the united states supreme court in 2000, it was a top-down policy. the boy scouts have ruled with a tight fist and said that no gay member can be a part of the boy scouts, whether youth or adult, so likewise f they'er thislikewo end this policy they need to tend as the top-down, saying we as the boy scouts of america are against discrimination. >> they also do not allow atheists anding agnostics. >> the issue they're talking about is the gay issue specifically. >> and just a last yquestion fo you, would you consider being a scou
when you have the president of the united states just last week talking about the civil rights movement from african-americans to women to gays and lesbians, it really kind of squarely puts the boy scouts in the past and i don't think that's a place they can afford to be anymore. >> so is lifting the ban enough? there's some thought the boy scouts will leave it up to individual troops to decide. >> of course. i think this is a great first step and a conversation that they're having...
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and once you're immersed in a certain language, if you're in the united states, you can pick it up. but the financial piece could be a barrier to entry for so many people. >> these are all broad strokes. these are just the principles going forward. so there's still a lot of digging, but senator mccain said, we've been too content for too long to allow individuals mow our lawns, clean our food and even watch our children and not affording them any of the benefits that make our country so great. let's create a system to bring them forward, settle their debt to society and fulfill the necessary requirements to become law asiding citizens of this country. >> that was that time when people in the latino community were saying why don't all of those folks who have those jobs stay home and we'll see how america functions. and it's true. this is supposed to be the land of opportunity and you have all of these folks here working hard. i'm not talking about the people who have criminal activity. but people that are just good abiding citizens or not citizens but good abiding people. why not giv
and once you're immersed in a certain language, if you're in the united states, you can pick it up. but the financial piece could be a barrier to entry for so many people. >> these are all broad strokes. these are just the principles going forward. so there's still a lot of digging, but senator mccain said, we've been too content for too long to allow individuals mow our lawns, clean our food and even watch our children and not affording them any of the benefits that make our country so...
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one of the things we know sarai this is the first time she's traveled outside of the united states so she's not a seasoned traveler so it's not that odd she might leave her passport in the room to get out and get something to eat or do quick shopping. someone that is seasoned knows you never leave your passport behind but since this is her first trip outside the u.s. i don't particularly see it as odd. she was sending pictures home, skyping almost every night. nothing that gave any indication there were any problems whatsoever, all of the things she planned to do she was doing and she was leaving early to surprise the children, she was very excited about surprising the children, no duress, nothing that would give us any indication there was a problem prior to her disappearance. >> so where does this go next? >> well, i can tell you that again, all authorities, everyone from the u.s. to the locals in turkey are working this as a missing person. they've elevated it to every level possible, the bureau chief of missing persons is looking, so i know that they're conducting a very logical i
one of the things we know sarai this is the first time she's traveled outside of the united states so she's not a seasoned traveler so it's not that odd she might leave her passport in the room to get out and get something to eat or do quick shopping. someone that is seasoned knows you never leave your passport behind but since this is her first trip outside the u.s. i don't particularly see it as odd. she was sending pictures home, skyping almost every night. nothing that gave any indication...
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the unit where the fire broke out, it's still closed down. but chevron officials expect to restart the unit by the end of march. >>> happening right now, media fans and -- media members of fans are at the superdome in new orleans where colin kaepernick is talking to the media. let's listen in. >> no. i try to blow them out. [inaudible] >> i mean, coordinators are always gonna try to figure out ways to stop different offenses. it's just a different offense they will plan to stop. [inaudible] >> if i was worried about my ethhad, i wouldn't be playing -- about my health, i wouldn't be playing. it makes it 11 on 11 football. you are reading him. [inaudible] >> he's always someone i lean on. my faith is always something that is always kind of kept my feet planted on the ground and kept me level-headed. [inaudible] >> you need to be able to run and up need to be able to read a defensive player. >> colin, you said if you were worried about your health, you wouldn't be playing football. where do you see football in about five years? >> i'm not sure.
the unit where the fire broke out, it's still closed down. but chevron officials expect to restart the unit by the end of march. >>> happening right now, media fans and -- media members of fans are at the superdome in new orleans where colin kaepernick is talking to the media. let's listen in. >> no. i try to blow them out. [inaudible] >> i mean, coordinators are always gonna try to figure out ways to stop different offenses. it's just a different offense they will plan to...
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the change discussed would give different religious and civic groups that sponsor scouting units the freedom to decide the matter for themselves. doug mckelway live in washington for us with more on this this would be a sudden reversal of policy right, doug? >> reporter: sure would, jon. only seven months ago in fact the organization reaffirmed its ban on homosexuality but apparently has come under tremendous pressure from two of its board members and some of its chapters to change its ways. the new policy, if adopted would allow individual chappers and troops to decide for themselves whether to accept gays. for families who have long seen the boy scouts as a refuge for traditional values the proposed policy change is deeply disturbing. >> the overwhelming majority of families in scouts adhere to a traditional bib lickal view of moral values which we think homosexuality is incompatable. we don't want our sons mentored by gay men. >> reporter: others say the scouts ha long had gays this their ranks who were forced to suffer silently with their secrets. we have a former eagle scout and
the change discussed would give different religious and civic groups that sponsor scouting units the freedom to decide the matter for themselves. doug mckelway live in washington for us with more on this this would be a sudden reversal of policy right, doug? >> reporter: sure would, jon. only seven months ago in fact the organization reaffirmed its ban on homosexuality but apparently has come under tremendous pressure from two of its board members and some of its chapters to change its...
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people educated in the united states -- and the greatest post graduate system on earth. we get people from all over the world. some of the bright people who want to stay, we should capture, we don't want them going somewhere else and being our competition. we need to capture them. in areas where we need specifically skilled workers, where we don't have enough americans, i don't mind for a while that we -- we pick up some of those people. but we have to have the vision to train up our own people. to educate our own people, to give our own people opportunities. in limited times, in times where we need folks, absolutely. just, for example, in the agricultural field, where we need workers, don't have enough american workers or american workers aren't willing to do it, we need a program where we can cover it and go back. >> i'm sure we'll speak with you again. a long, complicated process. >>> 36 minutes after the hour. president obama vowed to sign a $50 billion hurricane sandy relief bill as soon as it hits its desk. the senate passed it yesterday, after a four-week delay th
people educated in the united states -- and the greatest post graduate system on earth. we get people from all over the world. some of the bright people who want to stay, we should capture, we don't want them going somewhere else and being our competition. we need to capture them. in areas where we need specifically skilled workers, where we don't have enough americans, i don't mind for a while that we -- we pick up some of those people. but we have to have the vision to train up our own...